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Xu Shengjie brought a large pot of mutton hotpot soup into the house and started preparing for dinner. When he entered the house, he saw his wife and his daughter-in-law talking.
"What's up? Are you hungry, Shanshan? Let's eat."
"Your daughter was cheating on me, and I caught her in the act." Liang Baozhen smiled and let him see the soup at the corner of Shanshan's mouth.
Xu Shengjie also laughed, "Shanshan is cheating, how are we going to punish her later?"
Shanshan heard her father talking, pointed at the meat on the table and shouted, "Fine, Shanshan, eat, eat the meat!"
"You are quite good at calculating." Liang Baozhen was so amused by her daughter that both mother and daughter laughed at the same time. Shanshan followed her mother's smile, which was like the sunshine in winter, with her eyebrows curved and even the arc of the corners of her mouth were the same.
Xu Shengjie looked at his daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law who were also smiling, and his heart warmed up, as if it was the sunshine in winter, which made people unable to help but get closer.
Xu Shengjie walked to his daughter-in-law, wiped the soup from the corner of her mouth, tapped her nose, and said in a low voice with a hint of smile, "Little greedy cat."
Shanshan was not to be outdone, she also poked her father's arm and said in a baby voice, "Big gluttonous meow."
This year's New Year's Eve dinner filled the table, and there were even some rare dishes. Our family became wealthy this year, so we were able to get some unusual things.
Xu Shengjie brought Shanshan a half-person-high stool and held her up to stand on it. Standing on the stool, Shanshan could just reach the food. She ate standing alone, feeling extremely happy. When she ate something delicious, she squinted her eyes to enjoy it, and swayed on the stool a few times to express her joy.
Liang Baozhen patted the girl's buttocks to ask her to be quiet for a while, but Shanshan twisted her buttocks even more vigorously.
He smiled sweetly at his mother, and then at his father on the other side, "It's delicious!"
Xu Shengjie used her saliva bag to wipe her mouth, "What else do you want to eat? Daddy will pick it for you."
The dining table was big, and Shanshan was waiting to be fed. Her small bowl was filled with food picked by her parents. She pointed at the four-happiness meatballs in the distance and said, "Eat a few."
A round meatball was put into Shanshan's bowl. Xu Shengjie used her spoon to crush the meatball, then returned the spoon to the girl and let her continue eating.
Shanshan ate the meatballs one spoonful at a time and listened to the conversations of her family members at the table. She understood some of what they said but not some. As she ate more, her belly became fuller.
"Shanshan, you're full." She put down the spoon, grabbed her father's arm, used the force of her legs to jump to the ground.
The New Year’s Eve dinner took a long time to finish. After the table was cleared, everyone gathered around the warm stove to celebrate the coming of the new year.
This year, Shanshan also insisted on not sleeping. It was not because she wanted to stay up all night, but simply because she was too excited about the New Year, with everything chattering and noisy, and she didn't want to sleep at all.
As it approached midnight, the sound of firecrackers could be heard outside.
"Firecrackers!" Shanshan has sharp ears. When she heard the sound of firecrackers, she grabbed her father's arm and shook it. "Dad, set off firecrackers."
"Okay!" Xu Shengjie saw that the time was almost up, so he picked up the girl with one hand and walked out into the dark night.
The firecrackers in the house were always lit by Xu Shengjie. He handed the daughter to his wife, and took out the firecrackers and hung them in front of the house. A long red firecracker hung to the ground, lying quietly.
Shanshan wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and watched her father fiddling with the firecrackers, looking nervous and excited.
She had heard adults tell children to be careful with firecrackers, so she said to her father with a serious face, "Dad, be careful~"
Xu Shengjie turned around to look at his daughter, who looked so serious. He felt soft-hearted, "Dad will do it, don't worry."
Taking out a matchbox, Xu Shengjie asked the family to stand closer and lit a match himself. With a crackling sound, the flame instantly broke through the darkness, emitting a flickering light.
The firecracker fuse was lit, making a crackling sound.
Shanshan's ears were covered by her mother, but she watched intently, making sounds from her mouth, "Pa la pa pa pa ~"
The loud sound of firecrackers can drive away all the pain and suffering, leaving only joy and happiness in the new year.
Xu Shengjie walked to his daughter-in-law's side and saw that his daughter was extremely excited watching the firecrackers. He then looked at his grandmother, who was also smiling.
"Grandma, are you cold?"
Zhou Yun shook his head, "It's not cold."
It’s New Year’s Day and the family is together, how can it be cold?
Zhou Yun felt his heart warm.
After New Year's Eve, everyone starts visiting relatives and friends and chatting with each other in the first month of the year.
This year, Liang Baozhen went back to Damian Village with her eldest sister and her family on the second day of the Lunar New Year to prepare New Year gifts.
Xu Shengya had written a letter in advance and wanted her sister-in-law to bring it to Liang Baoling. Since the two girls of similar age met, they had been writing to each other from time to time. The frequency was not high. Sometimes they could send each other one or two letters in a semester. It would be even better if Liang Baozhen came back to the village. It would save the money for a stamp and let her carry it back and forth.
Now, there are still several stamps in the drawer of Xu Shengya's desk, all of which were torn off from the letters sent by Liang Baoling.
She tore the stamps carefully, and usually she could tear off a complete stamp. Sometimes she was unlucky and the stamps were too firmly glued, so she would tear a small hole. All the stamps with a face value of two cents and three cents were placed in a tin box, together with the candy wrappers.
"Sister-in-law, remember to give it to Baoling."
"I know. I will definitely be a good postman." Liang Baozhen felt that she was now the postman between the two little girls.
Holding the envelope handed to her by her sister-in-law, she glanced at the words on it. They were elegant and graceful, indeed beautiful. However, because she brought the letter home herself, the place where the stamp should have been was now empty.
Stamps? Liang Baozhen had thought of something, but couldn't remember it for a moment. She shook her head and decided to go home to celebrate the New Year.
Liang Baozhen's family of three and her eldest sister's family took the bus back. Song Chunhua and Liang Zhigao had been waiting for a long time. They all spent a long time eating the steaming dishes on the table.
Shanshan was hugged by her grandma and grandma one by one, and she said auspicious words obediently, and received several New Year gifts.
Even my aunt Liang Baoling, who is still in school, gave Shanshan a red envelope of two cents as a New Year's gift.
"Mom, take it." Shanshan handed the red envelope to her mother very consciously, "Shanshan's money."
"I know. This is Shanshan's money." Liang Baozhen put the red envelope received by her daughter into her bag, and also gave red envelopes to her family members, one for Mengmeng and one for Baoling.
I also gave my parents a big red envelope.
When Song Chunhua held the red envelope, she was shocked by its thickness. She asked her girlfriend about it only when she was washing the dishes.
"How's your business going?"
She knew that Baozhen and his wife were doing business, and Baoying also gave a considerable red envelope this year. Song Chunhua was very nervous. She was used to living a hard life, and now that good days had suddenly arrived, she couldn't adapt.
Holding so much money makes me feel a little uneasy.
"Business is good." Liang Baozhen let her take the money and spend it freely, "Mom, you and Dad don't have to go to the fields anymore, we can use the work points to buy..."
"What are you buying?" Song Chunhua felt that the girl was too extravagant now. "Why don't farmers farm? I'm telling you, I heard the captain talking to someone and it seems that our village is going to divide the land."
Liang Baozhen was not surprised. She remembered that in the past few years, the land had been distributed to each household throughout the country, and the farmers were finally able to have their own land. After paying the public grain, the rest was all theirs. This was much better than earning work points in the past.
"Then your father and I will grow more food and vegetables, and you can take them back to eat. Everything else in the city is good, but you have to spend money to buy vegetables. Our countryside is better. You can just pick whatever you want to eat. It's so convenient."
Song Chunhua was thinking about the good life after the land was distributed to each household. She hummed a little tune while washing dishes. Liang Baozhen listened carefully and found it was the same song, "Why are the flowers so red?"
After returning from the second day of the Chinese New Year, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie went to Hong Saner's house to pay New Year's greetings. On the third day, she went to the department store with Cheng Caili and Liu Nianhua. On the fourth day, she went to the National Cotton Factory to meet old friends. On the fifth day, she made an appointment with Liang Baoying and Xu Shuping to go to the park.
Looking at his wife who was busy every day, Xu Shengjie finally couldn't hold it in anymore and he had a lot of ideas!
On the fifth night of the New Year, Xu Shengjie warmed the bed almost to the point where he placed two infusion bottles filled with hot water where his wife was sleeping, and then waited for her to come up.
Feeling a little cold, Liang Baozhen wrapped herself in the quilt as soon as she got to bed, holding a hand warmer in her hands and a foot warmer at her feet.
"Are you cold?" Xu Shengjie touched his wife's hand, which was icy cold.
Rub her hands together.
"It will be warm in a while." Liang Baozhen covered the quilt close to her head and pulled it down, leaving only a pair of almond-shaped eyes exposed.
"You've been very busy these days." Xu Shengjie was still rubbing her hand.
"It's OK." Liang Baozhen pretended not to notice the sour taste in his words, "You're not idle either."
Xu Shengjie was indeed busy for a while. There are many things that need to be taken care of in business. He bought a lot of cigarettes and alcohol for the New Year this year, sent New Year gifts everywhere, and also sent a large bag of specialties to Wu Er who was far away in the south.
But he was only busy occasionally, so Liang Baozhen could never see him.
"I'm not as busy as you." Xu Shengjie moved closer to his wife, and gently stroked her hair. "You should accompany me tomorrow, right?"
Liang Baozhen raised her lips and counted carefully whether she had finished her work. "I have bought clothes with Sister Caili and Sister Hua, and I have also met with my eldest sister and Shu Ping, and I have also met with Wang Xin... Let me think about who else is there?"
Xu Shengjie knew that she was teasing him on purpose, so he leaned over and bit her lips while she was mumbling, "Anything else?"
There was a threat in his words.
Liang Baozhen stopped when she saw that she was ahead, and rubbed into the man's arms. She didn't care that Shanshan slept with her grandmother today, and she lay directly on Xu Shengjie's neck, frowning, "That's all, I'll accompany you tomorrow."
"You are good at recognizing faces."
"So what are we going to do tomorrow?"
Xu Shengjie had already thought about it, "We're going to watch a movie tomorrow. We haven't been to the cinema for a long time."
Speaking of watching movies, Liang Baozhen also became interested. In recent years, she has been busy taking care of the children, sending them to school, and running a business, and she indeed forgot about the date.
"Okay, then let's go see a movie tomorrow, then have dinner, and then go for a walk outside." As Liang Baozhen spoke, she felt that tomorrow would be very beautiful. She looked forward to it unconsciously, and her eyes and eyebrows were filled with smiles.
Xu Shengjie kissed her forehead and said, "Okay. But let's take care of other things first."
"What's the matter?" Liang Baozhen understood as soon as she asked, mainly because the man's eyes had changed. He was gentle as water in the last second, but now he looked like a hungry wolf.
Liang Baozhen didn't get an answer. Her red lips were kissed by someone, and she shuddered suddenly. Her heartbeat seemed to be held in someone's hand. She looked down and saw Xu Shengjie's tanned arm disappearing into her pajamas. The tender skin on her chest was scratched by the thick palm of his hand, making her feel numb.
The night seems a little long...the date the couple has been looking forward to will have to wait a little longer.
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①From the song "Why are the flowers so red"
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